Top 35 Software Startup Investors in Costa Rica (September 2026)

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• Braven — Braven turns every submission into a pre-analyzed, traceable decision, and every book into a live, provable view. Built for MGAs and reinsurers that do their own underwriting.
• Crabi — Full stack, digital car insurance
• Bellelli Educación — Bellelli Educación provides an educational services for early childhood.

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• Tumoni — Tumoni is a fintech company that offers digital banking services through free remittances.
• Paggo — Providing access to mobile payments for SME's through an app and mPOS that accepts debit and credit cards, create link payments for e-commerce, will come with a historical sales dashboard and financial ratios
• Ábaco — Ábaco is a fintech company that offers financial services with capital, payments & platform solutions.

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• Postearly — Write, chat, generate images, create audio and video, and run AI workflows in one flexible workspace.
• Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
• Extinguisher 360 — SaaS, PropTech, Compliance

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• Slik — Slik es la plataforma para medir, analizar y accionar la Experiencia y Compromiso del Empleado en tiempo real.
• Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.
• Wheel the World — Wheel the World is a social startup with the purpose of making the world accessible. By building a cutting-edge model of accessibility data, which is extracted, organized, and displayed on www.gowheeltheworld.com, we allow people with disabilities to find and book accessible travel experiences including hotels, tours, and activities with theaccessibility information they need in the most amazing destinations in the world.We believe that people with disabilities should experience the world like anyone else. Governments, travel companies, and tourism professionals are all joining the accessible travel movement given the exponential growth of people with disabilities traveling around the world. Our commitment is to provide detailed information about what is accessible and specialized customer support involved through the entire experience.An accessible destination is a combination of accessible accommodation, transportation, and activities. This is why we are partnering with local travel businesses creating 100% accessible services together that we offer online. We want to allow millions of people to travel to thousands of destinations!

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• Soyio — Gestiona consentimiento, identidad y derechos de titulares con trazabilidad auditable. Registra actividades de tratamiento con IA. Cumple la ley 21.719.
• Bruna by Altum Lab — AltumLab is a startup led by women, which allows to improve production processes with algorithms based on Artificial Intelligence. Bruna, is our SaaS platform, it is capable of reducing the use of energy resources; predict the quality and characteristics of finished products according to their raw materials; optimize the use of machines in theoperation and provide insights to make strategic production decisions in the short and medium term. It has been supported by various government and private funds
• Radar Treasury — Radar helps companies in Latin America to perform their bank transfers without human intervention. Radar created the first payouts to bank accounts API in Chile.

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• Nory AI — Revolutionise your restaurant with Nory's restaurant management software. Streamline operations, boost profits, and enhance decision-making in one platform.
• Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
• Ceartas DMCA — Ceartas is the leader in piracy protection for creators, brands & enterprise. Powered by AI, we have the highest removal rate in the industry

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• Hemi Labs — Hemi (https://hemi.xyz) is a modular protocol that integrates Bitcoin and Ethereum to amplify and extend the core capabilities of the two leading blockchain networks. This offers a novel perspective on blockchain interoperability and scaling by approaching Bitcoin and Ethereum as components of a single supernetwork. The result providessecurity that exceeds that of Bitcoin (“superfinality”) and new levels of blockchain programmability, portability, and potential. Hemi was co-founded by Jeff Garzik (former Bitcoin core developer) and Max Sanchez (inventor of the Proof-of-Proof consensus protocol), and is surrounded by a team of renowned blockchain engineers, strategic partners and investors.
• Sapien — Sapien offers Data Labelling Services with RLHF to fine-tune your LLMs potential. Improve model performance with better data to improve outcomes. Consult us now!
• Movement Labs — Movement Labs is on a mission to create a global community of Move Builders, working together to improve decentralized network user experience.

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• IMPESA — PCI-DSS certified. #MonibyteApp is the only app with a CryptoWallet and card controls! Kipo partnership with #PayPal. Monibyte for Business for corporations.
• Levita Magnetics — As a medical device start up, Levita Magnetics is passionate about developing innovative magnetic surgical platforms that serve as a catalyst in the continued evolution of less invasive surgery.The company's mission is to enhance patient outcomes by minimizing the footprint of surgical procedures across multiple indications and broadpatient populations. It's innovative magnetic surgical platform, called Magnetic Surgery®, is the next step in the evolution of less invasive surgery.

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• Coinpay.cr — Coinpay is the leading blockchain marketplace with a Crypto Exchange and Traded Wallet solution in the region. It was founded in Costa Rica in 2016 and offers an Ecosystem of blockchain services such as Exchange, Cards, Money Remittance, Escrow services and OTC thanks to its on site development team.
• ULTIMATE RECYCLER by Kashong LLC — Elimination of garbage landfills, forever, worldwide. ULTIMATE RECYCLER = 100% clean, Paris Agreement-compliant, total remediation of all post-recycled landfill waste and other toxic non-landfill materials while generating clean renewable electricity for local power grids. No incineration or combustion, no air effluents. Createswell-paid labor union jobs at each location. All processes commercially tested and patented. *** The ultimate "impact investment" -- Our company operates with "quadruple bottom-line" goals: (1) assist cash-poor municipalities, (2) create well-paid labor union jobs, and (3) provide a solid rate of return to our investing partners, all with the (4) cleanest & greenest, commercially-proven 21st century systems available. *** Partner inquires welcome.

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• Cashaa — Receive, earn, borrow, and send crypto easily with 0% interest loans and high returns on digital assets. Manage your crypto effortlessly today!
• Defi11 — Defi11 is a new-gen true decentralized fantasy gaming platform.

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• Cashaa — Receive, earn, borrow, and send crypto easily with 0% interest loans and high returns on digital assets. Manage your crypto effortlessly today!

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• Apurata — Prestamos personales hasta S/1,000.00 rapidisimos y convenientes! Sin historia de credito, sin aval, ni prenda. Aplica con tu DNI y Cuenta Bancaria.
• BlazingDB — We decided to create a new way of learning to make it attractive, flexible, and accessible to as many people as possible. Since then, we've helped millions of people around the world unlock modern technical skills and reach their full potential with code.
• Snap Compliance — We are a RegTech SaaS. We facilitate access to Anti-Money Laundering Monitoring, Operational Risk Management and Compliance Systems Management through a centralized and collaborative platform available to everyone, we seek to positively impact 100,000 companies by 2030.

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• fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements

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• Brale — One regulated system for stablecoin issuance, custody, payments, and compliance. 75+ programs in production across 45 US jurisdictions. SOC 2 Type II. Book a demo.
• Aquantia — At Aquantia, all three elements are present in abundance. Aquantia benefits from team members with a depth of diverse technology development expertise, signal processing innovation and an adherence to lean and agile management practices. Their engineers were at the forefront ofthe Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet product deployments, and areamong the best in production silicon design.Meet their leadership team, or the board and investors to see their guidance, financial backing and the company they've built.
• Truthsystems — Truth Systems offers real-time compliance agents that prevent human error by embedding behavioral guardrails into AI interactions.

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• Shorta — Descubre series cortas de drama, comedia, romance y suspenso en Shorta y empieza a ver hoy mismo, con nuevos episodios cada semana.
• NanoCo AI — A professional assistant that gets work done. Lives in Slack or Teams, connects to email, calendar and other workspace tools
• Veria Labs — Real security for your application in hours, not weeks

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• Kernel — This account is no longer active or monitored. For any queries, please contact @kelpDAO
• Doppler Finance — Rebuilding Capital Markets for the Tokenized Era.
• Mavryk Dynamics — Real assets, Real people, Real solutions. Building a smarter, more secure future. Blockchain, Done Better. Building @MavrykNetwork & @MavenFinanceDAO.

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• Sharpi — Sharpi offers an AI solution that automates B2B order entry by converting customer messages into structured ERP orders.
• Vixtra — Vixtra is a fintech company that provides payment methods for foreign trade and B2B payment methods.
• Properati — Properati is an online and mobile property platform for the real estate market. The company offers buyers, users, agile, free of ads, banners website, and tenants or real estate investors with a quick, designed for them to be able to communicate effectively with the offeror who has what they are looking for.Properati has an office in Sao Paulo,Brazil, and was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina.

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• Cuéntame — Cuéntame develops tools designed for employees' emotional wellbeing.
• Castor — Castor.app is a sleek, versatile domain that exudes innovation and energy. With just 6 letters and 2 syllables, this one-word name is easy to remember and perfect for a modern startup. The word Castor brings to mind qualities like adaptabil
• Listo — At Listo, we found that disconnection between restaurants and their suppliers leads to long, expensive, error-filled ordering processes that result in food waste and a multitude of other problems along the LatAm supply chain. We solved this problem with Listo: a B2B SaaS-enabled marketplace for restaurants and suppliers that allows them to buy andsell faster, cheaper and without the chaos.

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• Braven — Braven turns every submission into a pre-analyzed, traceable decision, and every book into a live, provable view. Built for MGAs and reinsurers that do their own underwriting.
• Jelt — HealthTech B2B Marketplace
• Brick — Brick Seguros offers security solutions and insurance services to car rental companies. It provides digital inspection and background check to help customers avoid fraud. Brick Seguros is based in Curitiba, Panama.

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• Spectral — A Protocol For Programmable Creditworthiness
• Decentral Games — We build games that reward you to play. Play, earn, and scale your own metaverse guild. ICE Poker beta is now live.

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• NextUI — Beautiful, fast and modern React UI Library
• StackAI — Stack AI supercharges businesses. Deploy AI-powered applications in minutes, automate processes, and skyrocket productivity by connecting LLMs to data sources using Stack AI's no-code platform. Export your work with user-centric interfaces (chatbots and forms) and developer-friendly APIs.
• Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs has closed. After three years, we have made the decision to close Reforged Labs.

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• Cicada — Cicada | Institutional Credit Risk Management On Chain
• Turtle Club — Aggregated, diligenced, personalized onchain yield management.
• Thrive Protocol — Thrive Protocol's vision is to maximize value creation for all people and communities.

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• Obsidiam — Obsidiam is a fintech company that leverages blockchain technology to provide financial and commercial services in Latin America. Its services include cryptocurrency custody, exchange, escrow, and payments. The firm is based in San José, Costa Rica, and within the jurisdiction of Free Trade Zone companies. Obsidiam’s goal is to be a promoter ofblockchain technology for the benefit and inclusion of the Latin American community. Through its products, Obsidiam offers an ecosystem that allows users access and usability of cryptocurrencies as an investment tool, and most importantly, in their everyday lives: paying for goods and services, sending payments to friends and family, cashing in, and cashing out.

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• Obsidiam — Obsidiam is a fintech company that leverages blockchain technology to provide financial and commercial services in Latin America. Its services include cryptocurrency custody, exchange, escrow, and payments. The firm is based in San José, Costa Rica, and within the jurisdiction of Free Trade Zone companies. Obsidiam’s goal is to be a promoter ofblockchain technology for the benefit and inclusion of the Latin American community. Through its products, Obsidiam offers an ecosystem that allows users access and usability of cryptocurrencies as an investment tool, and most importantly, in their everyday lives: paying for goods and services, sending payments to friends and family, cashing in, and cashing out.
• Payments Way Solutions — Payments Way Solutions SAS is a Fintech company established in 2017, specializing in providing comprehensive payment solutions. The company offers a range of services including mobile applications, payment gateways, and POS terminals to facilitate seamless transactions for businesses. With a focus on innovation and technology, Payments WaySolutions SAS aims to enhance the efficiency of financial transactions in the digital age. Catering to a diverse clientele, the company is committed to delivering secure, efficient, and user-friendly payment solutions. With a team of 50 employees, Payments Way Solutions SAS continues to expand its services to meet the evolving needs of the financial services industry.

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• Bacu — Bacu provides restaurant technology and offer a comfort food concept.
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• Latú Seguros — We are a start-up focused on providing business insurance, on a mission to empower business owners to change the world.

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• Caliza — Give your users access to the digital dollar economy. Get early access!
• fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements
• Vaas — Vaas is a private credit infrastructure platform that automates asset verification, servicing, and operations for asset backed financing.

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• Yellow Card — Yellow Card is a licensed stablecoin payments infrastructure provider powering global money movement across USD and 50+ local currencies. Talk to us.
• Blueprint Finance — Blueprint Finance develops protocols and infrastructure to advance on-chain financing.
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• Solfium — Solfium is a one-of-a-kind solar energy company dedicated to providing the best solutions for your house, business, or industry. Everything we do is driven by the desire to provide you with the greatest possible experience.
• RAY — RAY is the #1 sales platform helping restaurant owners attract more customers, grow revenue from no commission orders, direct bookings and more walk-ins
• Seenapse — Seenapse is an inspiration engine. It helps you to get more and better ideas, faster. While search engines return the most obvious, linear, and popular results (all of which are the opposite of what you need for ideation), Seenapse returns divergent, non-obvious results that can trigger the Eureka moment you are looking for.Think of it as aGoogle for divergent results.

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• A-World — Welcome to Animal World, a battle game based on #BNBCHAIN's super metaverse card tower defense. By setting up a hero tower to destroy monsters.
• NeuronX — The First AI-Driven Lending Protocol on @dfinity
• Vue Protocol — Community-First Layer for AI Memecoins. @solana @pumpdotfun @ton_blockchain Dvo1Fb7FxtUxsLbcQaizftfUT9HtL9P6swaQAScZDeQQ

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• Yakoa — Content creation is now AI-native. If your digital rights system isn't, it's holding you back. Discover our solutions.
• Limited — Secure your treasury and scale your business globally with a truly self-custodial account that only you control. No banks. No middlemen.
• Ceramic Network — We've joined @textileio to build the first open intelligence network for AI agents. Follow us there.

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• WECO Protocol — WECO Protocol turns real-world assets into opportunities, empowering peopl as stakeholders. With AI and blockchain, we make ownership simple and rewarding

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• LIFT — Investing in Families to Break the Cycle of Poverty
• California Competes — California Competes is a nonpartisan policy and research organization for critical higher education and workforce issues
• American Council on Education — The American Council on Education (ACE) is a membership organization that mobilizes the higher education community to shape effective public policy and foster innovative, high-quality practice.

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• Mana.bio — Mana.bio is an AI based drug delivery startup, focusing on gene therapy including RNA and DNA-based therapeutics and vaccines
• Gizmo — AI quizzes that help you learn and remember anything
• Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.

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• Motai —
• Wizzer — Wizzer is an AI-driven parenting copilot that provides guidance through highly personalized multi-modal conversations.
• fidu — Fidu aims to develop a new operating system specifically for LatAm schools enabling institutions to digitally handle everything from finances to school-wide announcements

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• WECO Protocol — WECO Protocol turns real-world assets into opportunities, empowering peopl as stakeholders. With AI and blockchain, we make ownership simple and rewarding